Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 - 2023
PhD Universität Leipzig
2014 - 2016
MA Visual and Media Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin, Research project: Up all night – emotional and mental health in new parenting.
2004 - 2005
Independent Documentary Factual Researcher Program, FT2
1997 – 2000
BA Fashion Promotion & Illustration, Surrey Institute Art & Design
Teaching experience
March 2022 & Feb 2023
Guest Lecture: Seminar: Feminist Pedagogy: Black Feminist Activism
Prof. Dr. Akwugo Emejulu, University of Warwick
June 2021
Guest lecture: Seminar: Race, and Racism Globally
Dr. Nasima Selim, Freie Universität Berlin, BA Anthropology
2020
Guest lecture: Seminar: Sensory Ethnography
Dr. Anne Chahine, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland
Winter Semester - 2017/2018/2019
Lecturer: Course Title: Decolonized, Images, Race and Representation
Course developed for the Masters program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Interrogating key concepts in the fields of Post-Colonial theory, Critical Race and representation in relation to anthropology
Conferences & Screenings
June 2023
‘Joy’ Multimedia piece in “When The Silent Song Rises” at ArtCo Gallery Berlin
June 2023
Paper – “ Calling worlds into being” Joint Graduate Conference, Goldsmiths x L’Orientale x Scuola Normale Superiore
April 2023
Group Show at Artco Gallery, Berlin - ‘Joy’ in ‘When the silent song rises’
November 2022
Film Screening: “Joy” at Ẅ XOOL Festival, Paris Closing film in the Zora Neale Hurston room for the 7th annual Black feminist film festival
July 2021
Paper: ‘Remembering Violence: Reading Refusal as a methodology of care’ Conference - Methodologies of care: Un/disciplining and Methodologies of Care Organisers
July 2021
Katharina Schramm (Bayreuth), Memory Biwa (Windhoek) and Eleanor Schaumann at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth
December 2019
Paper: ‘Crossing over – From witness to activist’
Conference: 3rd Political Imagination Laboratory “What [Not] can be Said: Fieldwork as Witnessing? University of Perugia, Department of Philosophy & Social Science
2018
Conference organization: ‘3rd Annual Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe’. Organizing team founded by Prof. Akwugo Emejulu, University of Warwick
June 2018
Paper: “Whose Streets? Space and the racial imaginary.”
Conference - ‘Imaginations, Construction and Staging of Space in Global Processes’ at the Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Science of the Research Academy Leipzig
October 2017
Paper: “The Edge of a Feeling; the development of visual and sensory online methods.” Panel for, Experimental and Sensory Methods in Critical Affective Research." At the German Anthropology Association
June 2017
Paper: “Fragmented Narratives; online spaces for experience.” At Voicing Experience: The 4th British Conference of Autoethnography. University of Sussex
April 2017
Screening: “Mile” (2015) Machinima film using online mapping, Google Streetview, film and computer interfaces. Part of the publication “Real world repercussions of Motivation and Interactions in a Virtual Space.” At 4th Ethnografilm Festival, Paris
Funding Awards
2018 – 2021
The Leverhulme Trust – Study Abroad Studentship for PhD candidates
Generative Research
2015/2016Concept Researcher – Here.com
Explorative research into concepts that define and shape our spatial relationships using research methods from the field of visual anthropology in relation to digital cartography and service development for the 'Internet of Things
Film & Archive
2018
Archive producer: ‘Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen’ Dir.Heperi Mita
2016
Archive Producer: ‘Verdict,’ Prod. Michael Bogár, Daniel Sivan, Dir. *Julia Eksner.( Perfect Shot Films GmbH)
2014
Archive producer: Notting Hill Carnival, Dir. Jaimie D’Cruz,Acme Films, UK 2009 - Associate Producer: Exit Through The Gift Shop
Paranoid Pictures Director: Banksy / Producer: Jaimie D’Cruz
Academy Award ‘Oscar’ nominated, multi award winning debut feature Documentary Film by the artist Banksy
Television Series & Documentaries
2011
Producer – The Antics Roadshow – Acme Films Directors: Jaimie D’Cruz & Banksy, Part of the Summer Hijack on Channel 4. (1 x 60″) Film on the beauty of anarchy and self-expression
2010
Producer/ Director: Planning Outlaws - Channel4/Keo Film, 1 x 30” Grierson award nominated documentary for ‘Channel 4 First Cut season’ about how people use and abuse the local planning system
2009
Producer: The Hospital; Diabetes - North One Television, 1 x 60’ Documentary as part of a landmark series of five films about the changing health landscape of modern Britain
2008
Story Producer – Kerry Katona: Crazy In Love – MTV/ North One TV, 13 x 30” Fly on the wall/ Observational/Reality series about Kerry Katona and her public and private life behind the headlines
2007
Gallery Producer – Britain’s Deadly Addictions – Channel 4 Education/ Firefly Productions, 4 x 60'' Mixed live format, Education program following 3 people as they undergo treatment to help battle addiction
2006
Assistant Producer - Burlesque Me Beautiful - BBC 3/ZKK, 1 x 60´ Observational documentary, with some format elements about a group of women learning to be body positive through dance
2006
Assistant Producer - The River Cottage Treatment – Channel 4/Keo Films, 3 x 60" presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Mixed format documentary series taking an innovative approach to changing people's eating habits and convincing them to go organic
2006
Assistant Producer - How To Improve Your Memory – BBC One/ BBC Science, 1 x 90’’ Presented by Professor Robert Winston. A scientific exploration on how our memories work, using a mixture of live studio and observational documentary case studies following the progress of people trying to improve their memories
2005
Assistant Producer - Going Cold Turkey – Channel 4/ Firefly Productions,10 x 30” presenter led mixed documentary and live format series for ‘Addiction Week’. Presented by Dr John Marsden and Krishnan Guru-Murthy
2005
Assistant Producer - 16 For A Day – Channel 4/ Raw Television,1 x90” Observational documentary on Teenage Britain, seen through the eyes of 8 teenagers all turning 16 on the same day
2005
Researcher - Who Gets The Heart – Channel 4/ Hart Davies Productions,2 x 50” Sensitive story led observational documentary about people waiting for a heart transplant
2004
Researcher - Vic Reeves Rogues Gallery – Discovery/ Oxford Film and TV, 10 x 30” Presenter led history drama documentary series for Discovery, on 18th century rogues